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Oct 2023
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The Beautiful Language Of Marcus’s Philo...

Daily Stoic | Wondery
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There are so many beautiful passages in Meditations. “The way loaves of bread split open on top in the oven,” Marcus Aurelius writes in Book 3, “the ridges are just by-products of the baking, and yet pleasing, somehow: they rouse our appetite without our knowing why.” His poetic observation of the way stalks of wheat bend under their own weight. His reflect ... Show More
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